Editor: Eóin McKiernan. Associate Editors: Henry F. Beechhold and Thomas Dillon Redshaw. Assistant Editors: Seán McMahon and Lawrence O’Shaughnessy.

‘“The Country Did Not Turn Out”: The Young Ireland Rising of 1848’, by Sean Cronin [3]. ‘Puck and the Irish: “The One American Idea”’, by Leroy V. Eid [18]. ‘“In Wreathed Swell”: James Clarence Mangan, Translator from the Irish’, by Robert Welch [36]. ‘W. B. Yeats’ The Wanderings of Oisin: Blueprint for a Renaissance’, by Adele M. Dalsimer [56]. ‘“This Deluge of Brass”; Rhetoric in the First and Fourth Drapier Letters’, by Matthew N. Coughlin [77]. ‘“Aware of My Ancestor”: Austin Clarke and the Legacy of Swift’, by Robert F. Garratt [92]. ‘The O’Conor Papers: Their Significance to Genealogists’, by Gareth W. Dunleavy and Janet Egleson Dunleavy [104].

Appréciation: ‘The Greening of a Limerick Man: Patrick Henry McCarthy’, by L. A. O’Donnell [119]. Current Themes ‘Our Armada Wreck Sites’, by Seán O’Donnell [129]. ‘Theatre: Direction, New and Old’, by Desmond Rushe [133]. ‘Language Report: First Quarter 1976’, by Nollaig Ó Gadhra [136]. Book Reviews [142]. Notes and Queries [157]. Cover [76]